Uh-oh. That’s what you’re thinking, and you know it. You’ve been thinking it for days, letting it rattle around like some awful ‘N Sync song you just can’t get out of your head. It’s festering up there right now, causing you brain pain. And there’s nothing you can do. More…
OKLAHOMA CITY–There was a time when he was deemed a dissenter, a cancerous growth too talented to biop. That changed quickly, of course, and former managers from Joe Torre to Tony LaRussa cut him out and replaced the prodigious outfielder with the more congenial while publicly branding him a malcontent…
While his teammates prepare for tonight’s game at Cleveland, he is a thousand miles removed, in both locale and mindset. Soon, the Rangers will take batting practice, shag fly balls, look over pitching reports. They’ll ready themselves for the Indians, for another game on another muggy summer evening in a…
Cloaked in darkness, 10 Drug Enforcement Administration agents close in on a rickety trailer in rural Navarro County. They’re about 55 miles south of Dallas just off Interstate 45 in a typically barren, woodsy section of North Texas, unspectacular in its rustic appeal–or its drug problem. Like any other county…
He’s sitting in a makeshift conference room in a temporary building, not far from where workmen are finishing his more permanent, palatial digs — maybe a long touchdown pass or kickoff return from SMU’s nearly finished Gerald J. Ford Stadium. Even now, with silver and green wires hanging everywhere, with…
If you squint hard enough, it’s 1990 again–only the affluent have cell phones, George Bush The Original resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Randall Cunningham is back scrambling in a winged helmet and ghastly green Philadelphia Eagles uniform. He is unpredictable from the moment the ball is snapped, deciding at…
Well, I lost a thumb on the Fourth of July / I ran into my mother and she started to cry / She looked at the label on that M-80 and she wiped the tears from her eyes / She said the Chinese we are not to trust / They…
Just hours after the decision was handed down, and just hours before the Rangers are to play A.L. West foil Oakland, the scene at The Ballpark is absent any obvious drama. The player who just had a dream dashed stands near second base and effortlessly gobbles grounders as he would…
It’s nearing 6 p.m. as the happy-hour crowd shuffles through heavy doors. Making the trek to Addison and this typically trendy suburban pub–Rock Bottom Brewery, a generic Belt Line eatery featuring greasy personal pizzas and cold hot wings, among other good-if-you’re-hammered sustenance–was an adventure for most, considering the Tollway’s ludicrous…
I’m not from ’round here, y’all. Don’t speak with a drawl. Don’t wear a big hat or boots or nut-hugger jeans. Don’t drink Shiner, whatever that is. Definitely–underscore, boldface, italics, capitals–don’t listen to country music. So maybe I just don’t get it. Maybe I’m too dense, too East Coast, too…
